Power Button - A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing Plotnick Rachel Assistant Professor Indiana University BloomingtonPevná vazba
Power Button - A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing Plotnick Rachel Assistant Professor Indiana University BloomingtonPevná vazba Push a button and turn on the television; tap a…
Specifikacia Power Button - A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing Plotnick Rachel Assistant Professor Indiana University BloomingtonPevná vazba
Power Button - A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing Plotnick Rachel Assistant Professor Indiana University BloomingtonPevná vazba
Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms.
In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when "technologies of the hand" proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control.
Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button